These pictures are of Castle ruins that are very close to where my brother is living. In fact, I can get there by walking in about ten minutes if I walk briskly. I loved this place. It's free to tour the grounds and you can walk through most of the ruins. At night the castle is lit up. I bought a book that chronicles the history of this castle and it is quite fascinating. It's been through many seiges with a final one in the 1700's where it was ordered destroyed. After that it served as a quary for building some of the houses in Kaiserwerth. I love the grass growing on the top.
This is me posing by one of the upper windows. Behind me is the Rhine River. This castle was once surrounded by water but one day a man and his troops came to the castle to free his friend the Bishop from the prison and the only way he could approach the castle without getting hit by arrows was to go upstream and make a dam. It took weeks to make it but once it was done it caused a finger of the river to dry up and he was able to approach the castle by land and rescue his friend the Bishop.
Maybe one of my German friends could translate this for me?? Most of the stones were translated to English except this one.
This was one of the water portals to enter to the castle from.
I love this photo. At the bottom of the photo you can see square holes. This was where the beams were to hold the floor up. The room was most likely the main banquet room.
This is looking from one of the lookout towers. It's quite the view from here. To the right is the Rhine, and below is the water portal to enter the castle.
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